J. R. Moehringer Quotes

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

J. R. Moehringer

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GoodFatherFoodParentsGood Food

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeBlessedDoingLikingLike

I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!

John Lithgow

LovedPlayingLoved Playing

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

Steve Carell

WritingControlLearnSomeoneYou

We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.

Amanda de Cadenet

LoveWorldFeelWantOkaySafe

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

Steve Waugh

GoodRedLuckGood LuckLuckyCharm

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

DesignYouBe NiceNiceRealOpen

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Roz Chast

PeopleShoppingFightingFeelGo

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Rupert Evans

TruthEndAnimalsWhalesWatching

I like building.

Ross Levinsohn

BuildingLike

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

Douglas Coupland

FoodBackWantEveryoneSeventies

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Douglas Coupland

TreeYouThenHater

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

Donald Kagan

HistoryTimeMyselfMeReadingBoy

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